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The Rat Patrol

TV Series1966 – 196830m2 seasons · 58 episodes
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The Rat Patrol is an American action and adventure television series that aired on ABC between 1966 and 1968. The show follows the exploits of four Allied soldiers — three Americans and one Englishman — who are part of a long-range desert patrol group in the North African campaign during World War II. Blazing across the North African deserts, this elite Allied commando team wages war against Nazis, traitors, and wild-eyed fanatics. Their mission is to attack, harass, and wreak havoc on Field Marshal Rommel's vaunted Afrika Korps, often against their enemy and nemesis, Hauptmann Hans Dietrich. The Rat Patrol characters are Sergeant Sam Troy, Sergeant Jack Moffitt, Private Mark T. Hitchcock, and Private Tully Pettigrew.

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Tom Gries
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E1The Truce at Aburah RaidSep 11, 1967 · 30m · Captain Dietrich monitors a broadcast to the Patrol from HQ and then intercepts them on their way to meet and escort a supply convoy. With the odds decidedly against the Rats, Troy takes refuge in an oasis. A young Arab girl playing nearby runs away, terrified of the noise, and falls down an old well. The Rat Patrol and Dietrich's unit agree to a truce and work together to save the child, who is still alive. But the arrival of a second German unit complicates the reluctant peace, shooting Tully. Ultimately, they rescue the child, and the Patrol escapes in the confusion.Not rated yet
E2The David and Goliath RaidSep 18, 1967 · 30m · The Rat Patrol ambushes a German courier and finds charts in his papers of desert waterholes and oases unknown to the Allies or the Germans. Suddenly Captain Deitrich's patrol attacks, wounding Tully and destroying the Patrol's jeeps, water and weapons. Troy and the crew strike out for a waterhole mentioned on the chart. Hours later, near their end, Troy and his men stagger toward an inviting waterhole only to find it poisoned. On a distant dune, they see Dietrich. Tully is near the end because of his wound. Dietrich offers to accept Troy's surrender. The Rat Patrol's only chance for survival is infiltrating Dietrich's encampment and stealing a vehicle.Not rated yet
E3The Trial by Fire RaidSep 25, 1967 · 30m · The Patrol attempts to destroy supplies in a small village where the Germans are loading a train with ammunition. However, the Germans are using a small group of Arabs (including women and children) to load the ammunition. One of the women stumbles upon Troy and offers to help by warning her people. But as Troy attempts to plant the explosives, Dietrich catches on to the plan and gives an alarm. Troy ends up shot and captured. It is now up to the rest of the Patrol to cause enough diversion to get him free. The woman continues to plead with Dietrich to give Troy medical attention. As Dietrich is questioning Troy, though, Troy breaks free, shoots the German, and can get the explosives planted with the Arab woman's father's help. The train goes up, but the father dies.Not rated yet
E4The Darers Go First RaidOct 2, 1967 · 30m · A heavily guarded German fortress appears impervious to the Rat Patrol's efforts to destroy its big supply depot. So, Troy determines their only chance to blow the depot is to capture a German tank and use it to get past the guards.Not rated yet
E5The Love Thine Enemy RaidOct 9, 1967 · 30m · Troy accidentally wounds a German nurse when the Patrol ambushes an Afrika Korps supply column. She is the lone survivor and requires urgent medical attention. The team faces the choice of completing their mission or allowing the girl to die. A guilt-stricken Troy desperately decides to take her to a nearby German field hospital. The only problem is that on the way, she overhears a piece of vital information.Not rated yet
E6The Darkest RaidOct 16, 1967 · 30m · Capt. Richter must convey a large cache of "confiscated" diamonds to Berlin to finance the Nazi desert campaign. The Rat Patrol must steal the diamonds from a military HQ in the desert. But, brute force will not succeed, so they need to attempt a plan full of guile and cunning to pull the theft off. So, Troy infiltrates the German H.Q., posing as a blinded Afrika Korps officer.Not rated yet
E7The Death Do Us Part RaidOct 30, 1967 · 30m · En route to a meeting with an unknown Arab agent, Dietrich ambushes the patrol wounding Troy. Except for Troy, they're all captured and taken to Dietrich's desert base. Troy eventually meets up with the agent, who turns out to be a teenage boy, and a female Irish teacher, but will she allow the boy to help Troy?Not rated yet
E8The Do-Re-Mi RaidNov 6, 1967 · 30m · The Patrol's orders are to rescue famous American pop star Mickey Roberts captured by Dietrich. The singer is a P.O.W. in a small Afrika Korps compound, and the S.S. arrives to turn Roberts into a propaganda coup. Troy lets himself be captured to free Roberts.Not rated yet
E9The Kingdom Come RaidNov 13, 1967 · 30m · Hitchcock supervises a special mission to deliver secret new anti-aircraft shell fuses when a German unit attacks the transport convoy. An American deserter wounds Hitchcock during the attack.Not rated yet
E10The Hide-and-Go-Seek RaidNov 20, 1967 · 30m · Dietrich leads a German commando raid to kidnap the 13-year-old mute son of British General Simms and take him to the Island of Rhodes. A German colonel holds the boy hostage to trade him for his father. The Rat Patrol must rescue the boy from the island's garrison with only the help of one Greek resistance fighter.Not rated yet
E11The Violent Truce RaidNov 27, 1967 · 30m · Moffitt takes over a mission to warn a British convoy of the contaminated plasma they are carrying.Not rated yet
E12The Life for a Life RaidDec 4, 1967 · 30m · Dietrich corners the Rat Patrol in a cellar with a pregnant Arab woman who has a valuable map and a French resistance fighter who has a personal vendetta against her over his wife's death.Not rated yet
E13The Fifth Wheel RaidDec 11, 1967 · 30m · The Germans capture a British colonel under suspicious circumstances as he returns from a staff meeting regarding an upcoming Allied offensive. The Rat Patrol receives orders to either rescue or kill him before the Germans interrogate him. His Sikh aide insists on participating in the mission.Not rated yet
E14The Two If by Sea RaidDec 18, 1967 · 30m · Moffitt infiltrates a German-held lighthouse posing as an electrician to learn the details of a German naval convoy carrying Tiger tanks headed for North Africa.Not rated yet
E15The Street Urchin RaidDec 25, 1967 · 30m · An Arab street kid is pursued by both the Rats and the Nazis when he gets hold of photos of secret German installations.Not rated yet
E16The Pipeline to Disaster RaidJan 1, 1968 · 30m · General Owen Lansbury, the head of British Intelligence in the Near East, bails out of his damaged plane behind enemy lines. After his rescue in the desert, he insists upon leading the Rat Patrol on a mission to disrupt a German oil pipeline, despite his deteriorated condition. The Rats contemplate mutiny when the injured and delirious general tries to take control of the team.Not rated yet
E17The Boomerang RaidJan 8, 1968 · 30m · A Nazi soldier posing as an Allied contact who carries a critical map attracts Troy's attention by his reluctance to ambush some German soldiers.Not rated yet
E18The Fatal Reunion RaidJan 15, 1968 · 30m · Moffitt runs into an old girlfriend, now a French Resistance fighter. She joins the Rat Patrol on a mission to rescue a French space scientist.Not rated yet
E19The Decoy RaidJan 22, 1968 · 30m · Sadistic SS Captain Wansee arrests the Swiss Red Cross worker Miss Arno vaccinating a North African village threatened by typhus. This mentally unstable SS officer breaks a truce in an attempt to capture the Rat Patrol, but Dietrich intervenesNot rated yet
E20The Touch-and-Go RaidFeb 5, 1968 · 30m · The Rat Patrol falls prey to a clever Nazi scheme when they rush to aid a band of trapped Allied soldiers, who are really Dietrich's soldiers. Taking a page out of Troy's playbook, Dietrich and three of his men pose as the Rat Patrol to infiltrate an Allied supply depot.Not rated yet
E21The Field of Death RaidFeb 12, 1968 · 30m · A German colonel, crippled in an earlier raid by the Rat Patrol, captures Troy's brother, an RAF pilot, in a plan for revenge to trap and destroy them.Not rated yet
E22The Double Jeopardy RaidFeb 19, 1968 · 30m · The arrival of a team of teenage guerrilla fighters spells "double-trouble" for the Patrol. The embittered young partisans, led by a 17-year-old Jean-Claude with his fiery girlfriend Monique, are determined to do things their way in an unplanned raid in an impenetrable S.S. camp, even though this means putting the Patrol temporarily out of action.Not rated yet
E23The Hickory, Dickory Dock RaidFeb 26, 1968 · 30m · The Rat Patrol is assigned a mission to safeguard POWs being held at a German repair depot that bombers will target. On the eve of the mission, Moffitt receives word that a German bomb killed his younger brother in London. Rage consumes Moffitt making him unreliable and endangering the mission to avenge his brother.Not rated yet
E24The Tug-of-War RaidMar 4, 1968 · 30m · Troy goes undercover to receive a locket of microfilm from a female French Resistance fighter. But before both are captured, he hurriedly disposes of the microfilm in an open grave. After Troy refuses to divulge the location of the locket, Dietrich sentences them both to hang--and Troy must find a way to get word to the Rat Patrol for rescue.Not rated yet
E25The Never Say Die RaidMar 11, 1968 · 30m · Troy and Hitchcock are captured by a German colonel with a scheme for them to radio false information back to their headquarters. Meanwhile, an Italian officer who wants to surrender to Moffitt and Pettigrew complicates rescue attempts. The Italian officer's sense of humor helps facilitate the escape of two Rats.Not rated yet
E26The Kill at Koorlea RaidMar 18, 1968 · 30m · The appalling brutality of a Nazi general makes him a prime target for an Allied offensive. The Rat Patrol is ordered to go with a South African sniper on a mission to kill the German general, but Troy decides to try to capture the general alive.Not rated yet

Top cast

Full cast and crew
Christopher GeorgeSgt. Sam TroyGary RaymondSgt. Jack MoffittLawrence P. CaseyPvt. Mark "Hitch" HitchcockJustin TarrPvt. Tully PettigrewEric BraedenHauptmann Hans Dietrich
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Details

Premiered
September 12, 1966
Ended
March 18, 1968
Status
Ended
Network
ABC
Country of origin
United States
Language
English
Episode runtime
30m
TVmaze ID
2148

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